People with Parkinson’s disease have lower levels of caffeine in their blood than people without the disease, even if they consumed the same amount of...
Though calcium taste doesn’t fit into the five established tastes the tongue’s receptors can identify, humans describe it as slightly bitter and sour....
Genetic analysis of DNA from a female infant found at the Upward Sun River archaeological site in Alaska has revealed a previously unknown Native American...
An artificial sugar called trehalose enhances the virulence of epidemic lineages of Clostridium difficile, a Gram-positive spore forming bacterium that...
Astronomers are one step closer to solving the mystery behind KIC 8462852, a main-sequence F-type star located in the constellation Cygnus, about 1,480...
A team of scientists at the College of Engineering (CoE) in Pune, India, is developing an efficient method for monitoring and recognizing bird species...
According to a study by University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers, a mammal’s brain changes how it stores information about innocuous events depending...
On October 2, 2017, just ten days after performing an Earth Gravity Assist maneuver, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft pointed its camera suite back toward...
A process using pluripotent stem cells from mice can generate skin tissue complete with hair follicles, according to a team of researchers from the Indiana...
How the brain is able to store memories over long periods of time has been a persistent mystery to scientists. In a new study in rats, a research team...
Supermassive black holes, with masses more than a million times that of the Sun, reside at the centers of all massive galaxies. A new study published in...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy UGC 6093.
This image, captured by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, shows the megamaser...
According to a new study published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, women can process oxygen more quickly than men when they...
New findings from a team of astronomers at the University of California, San Diego, and elsewhere increase understanding of how powerful winds generated...
The upcoming encounter of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft with 2014 MU69 will be an important and rare opportunity for close-up study of a Kuiper Belt...
